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Thursday, February 26, 2009

Polygamist leader quietly awaits trial in jail

Last updated February 14, 2009 4:01 p.m. PTPolygamist leader quietly awaits trial in jailBy FELICIA FONSECAASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERKINGMAN, Ariz. -- He's the most notorious inmate at the Mohave County Jail, segregated for the crimes he's accused of and the name he's built for himself. Most of his fellow prisoners know him from the news, though they've never seen him in person.Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was brought to the Arizona jail nearly a year ago, far from his followers, to await trial on four counts of being an accomplice to sexual conduct with a minor. The charges stem from two arranged marriages between teenage girls and their older male relatives.But Jeffs' journey through the justice system won't end here. As he awaits his day in an Arizona court, Texas is building an unrelated case against him, and he's already been convicted in Utah.For now, though, his life is a 7-by-12-foot cell where he spends his days poring over religious material and talking with attorneys over what lies ahead.Once a fugitive on the FBI's Most Wanted List, he's now described as respectful and polite and his habits are held up as a model for fellow inmates. In past jail stints, Jeffs refused to eat, banged his head against walls, attempted suicide and was restrained to his bed for spending too much time on his knees praying."I'm having better luck with him," said Jeff Brown, deputy director at the Mohave County Jail.Jeffs lived a lavish life as the charismatic leader of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, a sect based in the twin border towns of Colorado City, Ariz., and Hildale, Utah, that believes polygamy brings glorification in heaven.The Mormon church, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, renounced polygamy more than a century ago.Jeffs was revered as a prophet among his 10,000-plus followers, but his lifestyle started to unravel in June 2005 when he was charged in Arizona and went on the run.In April 2006, officials in Utah accused him of rape by accomplice in the arrangement of a 2001 marriage between a 14-year-old girl and her 19-year-old cousin.After more than a year as a fugitive, authorities caught up with him in Las Vegas; he was traveling in a red Cadillac Escalade with $57,000, cell phones, prepaid credit cards, wigs and sunglasses.A jury convicted Jeffs on two felony counts of rape by accomplice in Utah in 2007. He was sentenced to two consecutive terms of five years to life in prison, though the convictions are being appealed.Jeffs' troubles extended into Texas when he was indicted on charges of sexual assault of a child and bigamy, months after authorities raided the FLDS' Yearning for Zion ranch at Eldorado in April.Defense attorney Mike Piccarreta said the Arizona case against Jeffs was "religious persecution.""It's sort of a concerted effort to try and persecute an unpopular religious group," he said. "I think there's a belief that if you can prosecute its leadership, that will decimate the religion."County Attorney Matt Smith, the prosecutor, said Jeffs broke the law and that his case had nothing to do with religion."To call it religious persecution is ridiculous," Smith said.While the cases play out, Jeffs maintains his quiet existence, although the number of people wanting to see him in jail during twice-weekly visits has created a circus at times. Jail staff has had to coordinate the visits, each limited to two people, with the FLDS church.Jeffs' most frequent visitor has been Naomie Jessop, who was traveling with Jeffs when he was arrested in Las Vegas. On a recent afternoon, she and another follower huddled in a booth, separated from Jeffs by a window.Piccarreta said neither Jessop nor Jeff are interested in speaking to the media.It's not often the Mohave County Jail houses an inmate of Jeffs' notoriety, said Brown, the deputy jail director. When Jeffs is moved from his cell, all movement on the jail floor is halted. When he's due in court, Jeffs hops in a van with a security detail instead of walking across the street as other inmates do."We just have to be safe, because there are people who don't like him and would harm if they could," Brown said.

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For over forty years, delusional and lying Christians have accused Satanists of committing all manner of atrocities toward children without any evidence. This is ironic considering the pervasive occurrence of prolonged systematic child abuse among the various Christian churches and denominations, and among others abusing positions of trust in the Jewish and Islamic Synagogues and Mosques.

Enough hypocrisy. We all know who the sick, deranged child abusers really are: the sanctimonious frauds of the Judeo-Christian-Islamic traditions.

In fact, you could go so far as to say that child abuse IS a Judeo-Christian-Islamic tradition!

STOP THE MADNESS.

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The 9th Satanic Rule of the Earth

"Do not harm little children."--Anton Szandor LaVeyFounder of The Church of Satan

From THE SATANIC BIBLE

"Under NO circumstances would a Satanist sacrifice any animal or baby! For centuries, propagandists of the right-hand path have been prattling over the supposed sacrifices of small children and voluptuous maidens at the hands of diabolists. It would be thought that anyone reading or hearing of these heinous accounts would immediately question their authenticity, taking into consideration the biased sources of the stories. On the contrary, as with all "holy" lies which are accepted without reservation, this assumed modus operandi of the Satanists persists to this day!

There are sound and logical reasons why the Satanists could not perform such sacrifices. Man, the animal, is the godhead to the Satanist. The purest form of carnal existence reposes in the bodies of animals and human children who have not grown old enough to deny themselves their natural desires. They can perceive things that the average adult human can never hope to.

Therefore, the Satanist holds these beings in a sacred regard, knowing he can learn much from these natural magicians of the world."